Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Communicating with the Gods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 672

Communicating with the Gods

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2023-10-09
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious scriptures that now form an essential corpus, widely venerated and recited to this day, that is still largely untapped by research. Using historical and ethnographic approaches, this volume for the first time offers a comprehensive overview of the history of spirit-writing, examining its evolution over a millennium, the practices and technologies used, and the communities involved.

Laws of the Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Laws of the Land

A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese society during China’s last imperial dynasty, the Manchu Qing (1644–1912). Employing archives from Mainland China and Taiwan that have only recently become available, this is the first book to document fengshui’s invocations in Chinese law during the Qing dynasty. Facing a growing p...

Angolan Political Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Angolan Political Thought

Angolan Political Thought introduces anticolonial thinkers whose writings on colonialism and liberation have been instrumental in the formation of Angolan identity. It focuses on the political nature of these thinkers and how their work has impacted Angolan political reality. Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues both introduces and critically analyzes the thought of Queen Njinga, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Agostinho Neto and Pepetela and systematically addresses five important topics in Angolan political thought. Firstly, it gives a general introduction to African political philosophy and explains the place of Angolan political thought in this. Secondly, it explains how different Angolan thinkers have con...

Sinologia Hoje
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 163

Sinologia Hoje

Sinologia Hoje é um esforço inédito em trazer, ao público universitário brasileiro, uma atualização necessária sobre o campo dos estudos chineses. Nesse sentido, pensamos a produção de um trabalho que discutisse algumas visões sobre os estudos da China. Até mesmo o uso dos termos ‘Sinologia’ ou ‘Estudos Chineses’ tem implicações específicas, como veremos adiante. Fato é que esse livro pretende trazer alguns subsídios para essa nova área de pesquisa a se desenvolver no país – e desejamos que, dessa vez, o empreendimento dê certo. Para a realização desse livro, convidamos especialistas de diversas áreas, que trazem suas visões sobre os estudos da China, e os cuidados teóricos e metodológicos que devem ser levados em conta no desenvolvimento desse campo de pesquisa. Alguns desses ensaios foram traduzidos, outros são originais; todos, porém, são estudos atualizados e calcados em amplas experiências sobre os mais diversos aspectos culturais, históricos e literários dessa civilização multifacetada.

500 Single Best Answers in Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

500 Single Best Answers in Medicine

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2011-08-26
  • -
  • Publisher: CRC Press

Single Best Answer (SBA) examinations are an increasingly popular means of testing medical students and those undertaking postgraduate qualifications in a number of subject areas. Written by a final year medical student, junior doctors and experienced clinicians, 500 Single Best Answers in Medicine provides invaluable guidance from authors who unde

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 683

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2021-05-30
  • -
  • Publisher: Routledge

This Handbook approaches Chinese Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective while attempting to establish a fundamental set of core values and tenets for the subject, in relation to the further development of Chinese Studies as an academic discipline. It aims to consolidate the current findings in Chinese Studies, extract the essence from each affiliated discipline, formulate a concrete set of ideas to represent the ‘Chineseness’ of the subject, establish a clear identity for the discipline and provide clear guidelines for further research and practice. Topics included in this Handbook cover a wide spectrum of traditional and newly added concerns in Chinese Studies, ranging from the C...

Making the Gods Speak
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Making the Gods Speak

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2023-11-20
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

For two millennia, Chinese society has been producing divine revelations on an unparalleled scale, in multifarious genres and formats. This book is the first comprehensive attempt at accounting for the processes of such production. It builds a typology of the various ritual techniques used to make gods present and allow them to speak or write, and it follows the historical development of these types and the revealed teachings they made possible. Within the large array of visionary, mediumistic, and mystical techniques, Vincent Goossaert devotes the bulk of his analysis to spirit-writing, a family of rites that appeared around the eleventh century and gradually came to account for the largest numbers of books and tracts ascribed to the gods. In doing so, he shows that the practice of spirit-writing must be placed within the framework of techniques used by ritual specialists to control human communications with gods and spirits for healing, divining, and self-divinization, among other purposes. Making the Gods Speak thus offers a ritual-centered framework to study revelation in Chinese cultural history and comparatively with the revelatory practices of other religious traditions.

Antigas Leituras: Visões da China Antiga
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 463

Antigas Leituras: Visões da China Antiga

Uma coletânea de artigos sobre história, pensamento e literatura da China Antiga, coligida junto a autores dos mais diversos países, e organizada em conjunto pelos Profs. André Bueno [UNESPAR] e José Maria Neto [UPE]. A proposta do livro é inédita no Brasil! Essa é a versão Ebook para download direto. Índice INTRODUÇÃO José Maria Neto, 9 SOBRE O HUMANISMO NA CHINA; OU, DE COMO A POESIA ORIENTOU O CÉU Alicia Relinque Eleta, 20 O CULTO DA MULHER NO NEOLÍTICO CHINÊS Ana Maria Amaro, 41 SINOLOGIA E CONFUCIONISMO: A IMPORTÂNCIA DOS ESTUDOS CONFUCIONISTAS PARA A COMPREENSÃO DA CIVILIZAÇÃO CHINESA André Bueno, 56 LAO ZI E O TAOISMO Antônio Graça de Abreu, 74 O 'RITO DE PASSAG...

Heavenly Masters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Heavenly Masters

The origins of modern Daoism can be traced to the Church of the Heavenly Master (Tianshidao), reputedly established by the formidable Zhang Daoling. In 142 CE, according to Daoist tradition, Zhang was visited by the Lord on High, who named him his vicar on Earth with the title Heavenly Master. The dispensation articulated an eschatological vision of saving initiates—the pure, those destined to become immortals—by enforcing a strict moral code. Under evolving forms, Tianshidao has remained central to Chinese society, and Daoist priests have upheld their spiritual allegiance to Zhang, their now divinized founder. This book tells the story of the longue durée evolution of the Heavenly Mast...

Orientalismo Conectado
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 160

Orientalismo Conectado

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2019-12-21
  • -
  • Publisher: Sobre Ontens

Orientalismo conectado traz uma série de ensaios sobre os estudos orientais no Brasil, sua situação atual, discussões e perspectivas. Uma fonte de visões sobre os muitos orientes, produzida pela universidade brasileira, nas áreas de história, ciências sociais e artes.